I Shot the Sheriff (and I Killed a Deputy, Too)

April 1, 1878 After eating breakfast at the Wortley Hotel in Lincoln, New Mexico, Sheriff William Brady walks out on the main street to meet his deputies: George Hindman, Jacob “Billy” Mathews, John Long (a.k.a. Frank Rivers) and George W. Peppin. It’s approximately 9:00 a.m. A heavy rain has drenched the Bonito River Valley. The formidable men walk east down the center of the muddy street, picking their way around the bogs. As the quintet passes the Ham Mills residence,